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XXIII Summer Deaflympics

Host city	Samsun, Turkey
Motto	Our voice is sport (Turkish: Sesimiz Spor)
Nations	86
Athletes	2,873
Events	219 in 18 sports
Opening	July 18, 2017
Closing	July 30, 2017
Opened by	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Athlete's Oath	Ömer Otamış
Torch lighter	Ertuğrul Bursa
Main venue	Samsun 19 Mayıs Stadium
Summer
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Winter
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The 2017 Summer Deaflympics (Turkish: 2017 Yaz İşitme Engelliler Olimpiyat Oyunları), officially known as the 23rd Summer Deaflympics (Turkish: 23'üncü Yaz İşitme Engelliler Olimpiyat Oyunları), is an international multi-sport event that took place in Samsun, Turkey from July 18 to July 30, 2017. 3,148 athletes from 97 countries competed in 18 sports with 21 disciplines. 86 records were broken with 54 being world records and 32 being Deaflympics records.

Sports

2017 Summer Deaflympics offered 18 Sports including Golf which made its debut.

•  Athletics (43) (details)
•  Badminton (6) (details)
•  Basketball (2) (details)
•  Bowling (12) (details)
•  Cycling (details)
  • Mountain biking (2)
  • Road (8)
•  Football (2) (details)
•  Golf (2) (details)
•  Handball (1) (details)
•  Judo (17) (details)
•  Karate (18) (details)
•  Orienteering (9) (details)
•  Shooting (12) (details)
•  Swimming (40) (details)
•  Table tennis (7) (details)
•  Taekwondo (13) (details)
•  Tennis (5) (details)
•  Volleyball (details)
  • Indoor volleyball (2)
  • Beach volleyball (2)
•  Wrestling (details)
  • Freestyle (8)
  • Greco-Roman (8)

Venues

The largest venue at the games in terms of seating capacity was the 33,919 -seat Samsun 19 Mayıs Stadium, which served as the ceremonies venue.

Participating National Deaf Sports Associations

A total of 97 National Deaf Sports Associations from all over the world participated in the Games. This was the highest number of nations in any edition before. Afghanistan, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mali made their debut at the games.

Logo

The logo of the games is a combination of the elements of The Olympic Games, the Olympic flame, deaf communication, Samsun Pheasant Bird, Turkish Tulip, Peace and Friendship.

Mascot

The official mascot of the 2017 Summer Deaflympics was unveiled on June 13, 2017. It represents a local male resident wearing regional outfit. The name of the mascot was chosen as "Çakır" (literally "greyish blue") following a voting on the official website of the Deaflympics.

Torch relay

The Deaflympic Torch was brought from Lausanne, Switzerland to Batı Park in Samsun by the Turkish Olympic champion in wrestling, Taha Akgül. The torch relay began with lighting of the torches of the Turkish sportspeople as "Olympic ambassadors", the footballers Gökhan Gönül and Sabri Sarıoğlu, world-record holder female diver Şahika Ercümen and television host Ece Vahapoğlu. Led by the Minister of Youth and Sports Akif Çağatay Kılıç, they marched to the Mustafa Dağıstanlı Sports Hall, where the torch was handed over to the mayor of the Samsun Metropolitan Municipality, Yusuf Ziya Yılmaz.

Calendar

This is currently based on the schedule released by the official website of the Games.

All dates are Turkish Time (UTC+3)

July		18th Tue	19th Wed	20th Thu	21st Fri	22nd Sat	23rd Sun	24th Mon	25th Tue	26th Wed	27th Thu	28th Fri	29th Sat	30th Sun	Events
Ceremonies		OC												CC	—
Athletics							4	8	7	3	5	6	10		43
Badminton			●	●	1		●	●	●	●	●	5			6
Basketball			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		2		2
Bowling				1	1	1	1	1	1		1	1	4		12
Cycling	Road cycling		2		2		2		2						10
	Mountain biking							2
Football		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	2	2
Golf					●	●	●	●	●	2					2
Handball				●		●		●		●	●	1			1
Judo				7	8	2									17
Karate								8	6	4					18
Orienteering					2		1		2		2		2		9
Shooting			1	1	1	2	1	1	1	2	1	1			12
Swimming				7	6	7		6	7	7					40
Table tennis				●	2		1	2	●	●	2				7
Taekwondo												5	4	4	13
Tennis			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	3	2			5
Volleyball	Beach volleyball			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		2		4
	Indoor volleyball		●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●	2
Wrestling					4	4			4	4					16
Daily medal events			3	16	27	16	10	28	30	22	14	23	24	6	219
Cumulative total			3	19	46	62	72	100	130	152	166	189	213	219
July		18th Tue	19th Wed	20th Thu	21st Fri	22nd Sat	23rd Sun	24th Mon	25th Tue	26th Wed	27th Thu	28th Fri	29th Sat	30th Sun	Total events

Medals

This is the table of the medal count of the 2017 Summer Deaflympics, based on the medal count of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). These rankings sort by the number of gold medals, earned by a National Deaf Sports Association (NDSA). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by IOC Country Code. Although this information is provided by the IOC, the CISS itself does not recognize or endorse any ranking system.

Final medal table:

  *   Host nation (Turkey)

2017 Summer Deaflympics medal table

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	85	53	61	199
2	Ukraine (UKR)	21	42	36	99
3	South Korea (KOR)	18	20	14	52
4	Turkey (TUR)*	17	7	22	46
5	China (CHN)	14	9	11	34
6	Japan (JPN)	6	9	12	27
7	Iran (IRI)	5	9	20	34
8	Venezuela (VEN)	5	5	8	18
9	Kenya (KEN)	5	5	6	16
10	United States (USA)	5	3	8	16
11	Belarus (BLR)	4	9	3	16
12	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	4	5	8	17
13	Germany (GER)	4	5	3	12
14	Great Britain (GBR)	3	1	5	9
15	Slovakia (SVK)	2	2	2	6
16	Greece (GRE)	2	1	2	5
17	Cuba (CUB)	2	1	0	3
18	Czech Republic (CZE)	2	0	2	4
19	Thailand (THA)	2	0	0	2
20	Lithuania (LTU)	1	5	7	13
21	Italy (ITA)	1	3	8	12
22	Poland (POL)	1	3	7	11
23	Croatia (CRO)	1	3	2	6
24	France (FRA)	1	2	6	9
25	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	1	5	7
26	India (IND)	1	1	3	5
27	Switzerland (SUI)	1	1	0	2
28	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	4	5
29	Norway (NOR)	1	0	1	2
	Singapore (SGP)	1	0	1	2
31	Latvia (LAT)	1	0	0	1
	Mexico (MEX)	1	0	0	1
33	Mongolia (MGL)	0	4	5	9
34	Georgia (GEO)	0	2	1	3
35	South Africa (RSA)	0	2	0	2
36	Armenia (ARM)	0	1	4	5
37	Indonesia (INA)	0	1	1	2
	Portugal (POR)	0	1	1	2
39	Ecuador (ECU)	0	1	0	1
	Malaysia (MAS)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
42	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	0	0	4	4
43	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	3	3
44	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Egypt (EGY)	0	0	1	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (51 entries)		219	219	294	732

References

1. "Games – Deaflympics". Archived from the original on 2017-07-22. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
2. ^ "23'üncü Yaz İşitme Engelliler Olimpiyat Oyunları açılış seremonisi ile başladı". NTV (in Turkish). 2017-07-18. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
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4. A Month after the 2017 Deaflympics
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6. Bulletin Orienteering 3
7. Bulletin Orienteering 1-2
8. Samsun Deaflympics 2017 Has Ended
9. Deaflympics off to magnificent start
10. "Samsun 2017".
11. "Logo and branding (Corporate)".
12. "Olimpiyat Maskotunun Adı Belli Oldu". Tekkköy Gündem (in Turkish). 2017-06-13. Archived from the original on 2017-07-30. Retrieved 2017-07-04.
13. Voting for the name of the mascot of Deaflympics
14. "Olımpiyat Elçilerinin Samsun Coşkusu" (in Turkish). Deaflympics 2017. 2017-07-08. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
15. "Schedule". 2017 Deaflympics. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
16. "Medals". Deaflympics 2017. 2017-07-08. Retrieved 2017-07-20.
17. "Deaflympics 2017 Samsun Results". deaflympics2017.org (in Turkish). Retrieved 2017-09-02.
18. "Medal standings" (PDF).

External links

• Official website Archived 2019-12-30 at the Wayback Machine

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